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Yukon: the months when each species peaks and when it goes quiet. The current month is outlined.
| Fish | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake trout | peak | peak | peak | peak | active | active | fair | slow | slow | fair | active | active |
| Whitefish | fair | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | peak | peak | active |
| Pike | active | fair | fair | fair | fair | fair | active | active | active | peak | peak | peak |
| Arctic char | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Chinook salmon | slow | slow | slow | slow | active | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow | slow |
| Dolly Varden | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Burbot | active | active | fair | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow | active | peak |
| Chum salmon | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | fair |
Lake Tatlmain Creek (Yukon) — a popular fishing spot. About 2 ha in area. A smart bite calendar — moon phase, atmospheric pressure, and weather combined into an hourly fish-activity forecast for the coming days.
Other nearby waters
The shoreline is moderately indented: bays and points alternate with even stretches. Smaller than 6 of the 11 waters nearby.
The water is sheltered: there is almost no fetch, so wind stirs it up very little.
Hunt with holes: drill a line of them along the drop-off and work each for a few minutes — on ice the angler who moves is the one who finds fish.
Tatlmain Creek — Tuesday, October 20
The bite is strong — fish are active. Weather is steady, with no sharp swings — fish behave predictably. Peak 09:00–10:00 and 18:00–20:00.
The computed water temperature is around 5 °C — inside the 1–10 °C comfort range for Arctic char, so baseline activity is high.
Going by this year's frosts the ice is about 23 cm — solid, but noticeably thinner near current, reeds and springs. This is an estimate from the weather across the whole region, not a measurement on your water.
Arctic char works the twilight: the peaks are pinned to sunrise and sunset — their times are in the sun-and-moon card above.
Pressure is dropping 19 hPa over the day — fish are usually more active ahead of a weather change.
One more input — the moon's feeding windows: within their hours the score sits higher than across the rest of the day. The window times are in the “Solunar feeding periods” card below.
October is an active season for Arctic char here.
These are the same values the bite curve above was computed from. How the forecast works
Snow · feels like -6°
The day is 6 min shorter than yesterday.
Sunshine hours count direct sun only — cloud cover cuts it, so it is shorter than daylight.
Geomagnetic fieldG1 geomagnetic storm, Kp 4.7
Kp index — NOAA data. Not part of the bite score: catches show no link between geomagnetic storms and the bite.
The windows are set by the moon's transit and rise, and the forecast above already accounts for them: within these hours the bite score sits higher than across the rest of the day, while the day's overall level still comes from the catch-calibrated model.
What are solunar periods?Hunt with holes: drill a line of them along the drop-off and work each for a few minutes — on ice the angler who moves is the one who finds fish.
Tatlmain Creek — Tuesday, October 20
The bite is strong — fish are active. Weather is steady, with no sharp swings — fish behave predictably. Peak 09:00–10:00 and 18:00–20:00.